It’s a roller coaster emotionally for the player, and it’s a rollercoaster coaster for the coach developing a player. It’s long term, but you still get caught up in the moment and you get caught up in the emotion. You have the winning and losing of tennis. It doesn’t matter what anyone says. It’s a tough sport because every point is a win loss situation. At the end of the match you could have played well and you’re going to lose, or you’ve won a few less points.

Being a coach, you have to look at it long term because most players are going to lose a lot more matches than they win or it’s 50/50. You take out probably a few of the top players where their win loss ratio is much higher.

There’s a lot of losing going — So, there’s a lot of emotions.

As a coach sticking to your plan and coming the next day and not getting lost, if they’re misbehaving or not doing exactly what you think they should do and being consistent on that, that’s like being a parent.

You can’t be chopping and changing every day depending on the mood of yourself or the player.

You have to be thinking, you lose, you win. No matter, next day we got to go again, and you try, and you stick to the plan that you have set out. You don’t get lost in the emotions. You can’t swing when things are not going exactly the way you think they should be going. Because it’s going to happen.

It happens in life; it happens in tennis that things are not going to work out the way you envisioned, or you want them. To me you see a lot of tweaking too quickly or coaches turn and then it gets confusing for the player.

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